To accrete or not to accrete: the dilemma of the recycling scenario

Details To accrete or not to accrete: the dilemma of the recycling scenario To accrete or not to accrete: the dilemma of the recycling scenario

2004-04-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0404303v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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7 pages, including 2 figures. To appear in proceedings of Aspen Center for Physics Conference on ``Binary Radio Pulsars'' Eds.

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We study the evolution of a low-mass X-ray binary by coupling a binary stellar evolution code with a general relativistic code that describes the behaviour of the neutron star. We find that non-conservative mass transfer scenarios are required to prevent the formation of submillisecond pulsars and/or the collapse to a black hole. We discuss the sweeping effects of an active magneto-dipole rotator on the transferred matter as a promising mechanism to obtain highly non-conservative evolutions.

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